Recommend me a Gigabyte...

[artaxerxes]

With support for the lastest Sandy Bridge.

Dual 16x PCIe Slots and
a handful (at least) of 4x ones for an adaptec RAID card.
and then some more 1x slots I suppose.
USB3

As future proof as possible - this is going into a rack of computers used as stimulus sources for our fMRI lab. Won't be swapped out for 5 years?

Weird desire is for onboard parallel port if possible. Otherwise what PCIE or PCI card can you recommend. Has to have full interrupt - not like the USb to parallel adapters.

Ta muchly.

 

[1Day]

P67A-UD5 will do the job.

 

[marmalade]

With support for the lastest Sandy Bridge.

Dual 16x PCIe Slots and
a handful (at least) of 4x ones for an adaptec RAID card.
and then some more 1x slots I suppose.
USB3

As future proof as possible - this is going into a rack of computers used as stimulus sources for our fMRI lab. Won't be swapped out for 5 years?

Weird desire is for onboard parallel port if possible. Otherwise what PCIE or PCI card can you recommend. Has to have full interrupt - not like the USb to parallel adapters.

Ta muchly.

If you are to use the onbaord video then then the H67 board should be used

 

[artaxerxes]

Nice... oh the UD7 is even nicer.

 

[martynpd]

UD7 seeems to be the popular choice at the moment id get that

 

[artaxerxes]

Thanks chaps - we are looking at buying a big pile of these. Ivy Bridge is not till next year so we are pretty stable chipset wise.

What's the sweetspot processor wise...?

 

[SimonMaltby]

What's the sweetspot processor wise...?

2600K if overclocking
If not overclocking then there is little to choose between the 2500 and the 2600 unless you value Hyper-threading